Pick up one of those auto shopper newspapers, and add up the prices of all the cars on a typical page. Now imagine a page of bikes instead of a page of cars. Knock off a zero or two… and you’ll see why a bicycling economy is both inevitable and daunting.

Inevitable because our national economy is headed for more cutbacks — and bicycling will help us get through. Daunting because the growth in bicycling is both the cause and the result of less money flowing around.